… longer term basis which has given me time to explore new tools using their environments. One tool that I am finding… called SchemaSpy. SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool (requires Java 5 or higher) that analyzes the metadata of a schema in… is the properties file in use for my Percona Server 5.6.10 sandbox: description=MySQL driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver…
Comment: MySQL alternative Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.6 now available
May 28, 2013 By 3 Comments
Hi, I can’t find any 5.1 files in the yum repos. Have they been moved to a new location (for example, I’m checking repo.percona.com/centos/5/os/x86_64/ )? The apt repo seems to be okay though. Thanks!
Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1
May 27, 2013 By 8 Comments
You can replicate from MySQL 5.6 to MariaDB 10.0 or vice versa. You just … automatically pick the correct binlog position when switching to a new master. Old-style replication will work. That being said, I… compatible without merging all of the crap that is MySQL 5.6 global transaction ID, I would very much like to…
Comment: Converting Character Sets
June 12, 2013 By 22 Comments
… explained in the manual – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html “For a column that has… change the data type as necessary to ensure that the new column is long enough to store as many characters as…
Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… XtraDB Cluster, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s…
Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1
May 27, 2013 By 8 Comments
… few machines to see how it goes before deploying the new version on every server. Having such an incompatibilty could unfortunately… in the future for people wanting to switch from MySQL 5.6 to MariaDB 10.
Post: Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 rerelease fixes non-restart issue
April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… walking through this. — More info on Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 — New Features: Percona Server for MySQL has implemented priority connection… bug #1070856 introduced a regression in Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.28-29.3 which could cause a server to hang… #1154954 (Hrvoje Matijakovic). Release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 are available in our online documentation. Bugs…
Post: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences
April 11, 2013 By 6 Comments
… MySQL Alternatives including keynotes for Drizzle and MariaDB. MySQL 5.5 replaced MySQL 5.4 as next planned GA release. Percona releases GA… promises what the final version will contain. MySQL 5.5.11 is GA and MySQL 5.6.2 is nonGA. 2012 marks the… – the new approach to MySQL High Availability in and out of the Cloud. MySQL 5.5.23 is GA and 5.6.5 is nonGA…
Post: MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released
March 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
… for MySQL 5.6. Several months in the making and many new features, changes, and improvements make this a great new series. It…-new pt-upgrade was written once long ago and not updated since. Now that we have four base versions of MySQL (5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 5.6), plus at least four major forks (Percona…
Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL now available
April 17, 2013 By 2 Comments
… available from the downloads area or from our software repositories. New Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster has implemented initial implementation of weighted… in it and on Codership wsrep API 5.5.30-23.7.4, Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 is now… open-source and free. Release notes for Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 are available in our online documentation…
